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Two-dimensional Rademacher walk

Probability 2026-02-16 v2

Abstract

We study a generalisation of the one-dimensional Rademacher random walk introduced in Bhattacharya and Volkov (2023) to Z2\mathbb{Z}^2 (for d3d\ge 3, the Rademacher random walk is always transient, as follows from Theorem 8.8 in Englander and Volkov (2025)). This walk is defined as the sum of a sequence of independent steps, where each step goes in one of the four possible directions with equal probability, and the size of the nnth step is ana_n where {an}\{a_n\} is a given sequence of positive integers. We establish some general conditions under which the walk is recurrent or transient.

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@article{arxiv.2506.16259,
  title  = {Two-dimensional Rademacher walk},
  author = {Satyaki Bhattacharya and Stanislav Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16259},
  year   = {2026}
}
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